Antimicrobials in the Food Chain: Resistant Pathogens and Food Safety
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1759
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymyxins; colistin; mode of action bacterial outer membrane; antibiotic resistance; food; environment; Galleria
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Zoonotic bacterial pathogens associated with food products constitute a well-known direct link to public health. Antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs) in the food chain however represent a more indirect risk to public health by providing a larger gene pool for the acquisition of resistance by pathogens. Food safety is compromised if bacteria containing ARGs from food products or processes are able to colonize the human gut. More research/knowledge in this area by academics, industry and government is essential to enable the global food sector to gain awareness and insight into the issue and take necessary steps in the food safety assurance practices required to address the threat of antimicrobial resistance.
This Special Issue invites articles with primary data or mini-reviews on the current standing or future challenges of AMR pathogens and food safety including (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Potential role of bacteriophages /probiotics to control AMR bacteria in food animals or food processing contexts.
- Surveillance of AMR in pathogens in the food chain.
- Evidence of transfer of AMR from food animals or products to people.
- Using new technologies (metagenomics /WGS etc.) to identify AMR and/or ARGs ‘from farm to fork.’
- Risk assessments of AMR in the food chain.
- Control of AMR and/or ARG from food animals or products by intervention by physical or chemical approaches.
Dr. Ron Dixon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- food safety
- pathogens
- risk assessment
- detriment
- antimicrobial genes
- food processing
- farm to fork
- bacteriophages
- probiotics
- interventions
